First post, by Crank9000
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I've got three options:
A: Get a 1280x1024 LCD monitor and enjoy sharp native resolution picture for 95% of the games I play. Problem: I'd have to make room for that stuff and that would require making changes I REALLY don't want to do.
B: Move to somewhere I have the room to do what I want. Problem: I don't want to move yet so this isn't actually an option at all.
C: Get a 32" 1440p monitor for my main PC, also connect Windows XP PC to it too and get a big ass 4:3 picture for my old games
The C option sounds best for me and I've been looking at Benq PD3200Q monitor, 32" 1440p monitor with all kinds of scaling options (1:1, aspect ratio, different screen size/resolution "emulation") and the thing even has inbuilt KVM. But since it's 1440p the good old "will my older games look like crap on it" question rises it's ugly mug, and for that I'd like get input from people here who use 1440p monitor for older games. I'm very aware that scaling 1280x1024 or under to 1440p will not look as sharp as native 1440p would but is the picture tolerable? All right? Horrendous? Most of my games max out at 1600x1200 or 1280x1024, only a couple max out at 800x600 or under.
For some games I could use 720p and have it integer scaled, but this isn't something I can do for most of my games as they are natively 4:3 and I really can't tolerate messed up aspect ratio even in UI elements. Some of them I might be able to play on 1600x1200 with 1:1 scaling. I'm also aware of dgVoodoo2 and things like that that allow you to increase the internal resoltion, but I'd like to avoid using them if at all possible. I don't think dgvoodoo2 even works on Win XP.
So how bout it, am I about to shoot myself in the foot or is this actually something worth concidering?